Train - Across Xinjiang
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Travel 3,000 Miles Through China’s Wondrous Wild West
"The train wasn’t as fancy—sand from the Taklamakan Desert filtered in through cracks in the windows, bathing the cars in yellow light “like it was California in the fifties.” He says the mood of the trip was completely different, too. “It was a short trip, just six hours, so there’s not much boredom that settles in,” he says. “It was full of students that were kind of rowdy and laughing. It was a much more exuberant atmosphere than the long trip from Hong Kong to Ürümqi.” And since Paley is fluent in Turkish, having lived in the country for years, he could converse with these passengers and get a sense of their lives."
A train ride following the southern branch of the Silk Road, along the Taklamakan desert, the second largest shifting-sand desert in the world.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/travel-3-000-miles-through-chinas-wondrous-wild-west/
"The train wasn’t as fancy—sand from the Taklamakan Desert filtered in through cracks in the windows, bathing the cars in yellow light “like it was California in the fifties.” He says the mood of the trip was completely different, too. “It was a short trip, just six hours, so there’s not much boredom that settles in,” he says. “It was full of students that were kind of rowdy and laughing. It was a much more exuberant atmosphere than the long trip from Hong Kong to Ürümqi.” And since Paley is fluent in Turkish, having lived in the country for years, he could converse with these passengers and get a sense of their lives."
A train ride following the southern branch of the Silk Road, along the Taklamakan desert, the second largest shifting-sand desert in the world.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/travel-3-000-miles-through-chinas-wondrous-wild-west/
